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Daniel Beck Mod
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Click handling on post preview inconsistent and confusing

How Super User (and probably all Stack Exchange sites) handle clicks to preview areas for posts currently being written is confusing and horribly inconsistent:

  • If I click the preview pane for a new answer...

    The page focuses on the associated answer text area, i.e. the input field that is used as source for the preview I just clicked.

    Very useful for longer posts, especially in topics with several answers, since it makes finding the text field trivially easy.

  • If I click the preview pane for an existing post I'm editing inline...

    Nothing happens. The current text area loses focus.

  • If I click the preview pane for a Q&A style answer written parallel to the question...

    The page focuses on the text area for the question?!

    Surely you jest! What's next, focusing the search box?

Daniel Beck Mod
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